I haven't liked most Microsoft products that I have tried.  I used the Wang word processing program as an engineering writer back in 1985.  That old program could do things that the new Microsoft Word still can't perform over 20 years later.  How sad.

Hey thanks for the tip today,  I really don't care for Microsoft products.

Patricia Aulson/SEACOAST NH  & ME 

How about Microsoft Publisher? Same Problems? or is it ok to use instead of Word??

Thanks,

Debbie -

Have you been using Publisher to publish to the web?  I do see a post of yours from January 31st where the formatting is not consistent with the rest of the blog.  It would lead me to believe that a standard desktop publishing tool was used for that particular post and hence the break from the norm.

Other than that... the more recent posts have uniformity... with what were they published? 

Does this only happen with Microsoft Word? What about NotePad or WordPad? I've been creating my blogs through WordPad instead. Haven't had a problem so far.

With word 2007 I can compose a post and upload it to typepad.  It is drop dead cool. 

Luisa,

I actually use NotePad and WordPad to 'launder' articles that are sent to me in Word from my Guest Authors.  The reason being is that NP and WP strip all jenky formatting from the Word documents, making them very much 'web-ready' 

Our Wordpress blogs were messed up by using MS word and I too use Notpad and Textpad. I like your graphic.

I have had the experience of writing a blog and having my computer freeze up and have lost the entire post. As a result I have gone to MS Word and to this point I have had no problems.

Do you have another solution when posting to Active Rain?

Thank you for the post!

James

I have now started writing all my post in html on notepad and then cutting and pasting.  How do we know a blog is broken?  My post that I wrote before I found out word was not a good thing to use look okay.

Jim, your analogies are always so great...always so sticky (pun intended).  You certainly have a gift...sorry to go off on a tangent.  I learned about this from Paul about a week ago and totally freaked out!  I think I had written 90% of my AR blogs using WORD.

Jim - I found out about this problem on my vFlyer.  You can't paste things from word onto them either. It ends up having * or boxes all over the text.  I like to use word for the grammar check though. 

I've been posting my blog on my website from AR with Word.  No wonder I've ran into some issues....  Thanks for the heads up!